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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister claimed that the cost of living is the best it has been in decades, but I have some news for him: We are in a recession. Along with my Conservative colleagues, I travelled across Quebec last week to hear from entrepreneurs. In Beauce, Bellechasse, the Lower St. Lawrence, Saguenay and Quebec City, the conclusion is always the same: Investments are being postponed, pl…
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Mr. Speaker, I think that the Minister of Finance is out of touch with reality. What we see on the ground, what we have observed, is that this is not working at all. What is more, a poll shows that 60% of Canadians are anxious because they do not have enough money and do not know how things will turn out. Then there are our entrepreneurs. As I said when I asked the first question: they have stoppe…
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Mr. Speaker, Lac Saint-Charles provides drinking water to nearly 300,000 residents of the Quebec City region. Between 2019 and 2021, I proposed a $200-million federal investment to protect this resource, and that proposal was supported by the former minister, the current member for Québec Centre. Seven years on, nothing has been done. Can the Secretary of State for Nature explain why the Liberals …
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Mr. Speaker, when the Prime Minister left his job as the chair of Brookfield in New York to come to Canada, he forgot that he was no longer working for a private company but for Canadian taxpayers. Right now, Canadians are going through a recession. They are paying more for everything, and millions are struggling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, government documents show that the Prime Minister spent…
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Mr. Speaker, I think the tone I used was appropriate, considering how wasteful the party across the way has been all these years. I know that it must be hard for the Prime Minister to get used to life in the public service after having enjoyed the perks of working for a private company like Brookfield. However, it is important to understand that each trip costs an average of $70,000 in food and dr…
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Mr. Speaker, a United Way report released today reveals that Canadians are increasingly concerned about their financial situations. According to the report, 60% of Canadians are anxious about their finances, and 38% of Canadians are experiencing food insecurity. While families are struggling to build a future for themselves, the government wants them to foot the bill for a high-speed rail project …
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Mr. Speaker, I think the Secretary of State for Nature did not understand what I said in my first question. Sixty per cent of Canadians are feeling anxious, and 38% of Canadians are experiencing food insecurity. The government wants to embark on a high-speed rail project costing over $100 billion while people are going hungry. How can anyone think that these people can afford a ticket to ride the …
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Mr. Speaker, last week we met with businesses across Quebec. The picture is the same everywhere: The uncertainties surrounding CUSMA and the U.S. tariffs under section 232 are increasing the financial pressure on our manufacturers and hampering investment. Business owners tell us they are putting expansion plans on hold, delaying equipment purchases and hesitating to invest in their growth. That i…
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Mr. Speaker, what the government has to understand is that businesses have told us that they are waiting. They are waiting to invest, they are waiting to expand their facilities and they are waiting to take risks. Is that the government's idea of good economic conditions: a climate of uncertainty that is paralyzing private investment at a time when Canada is in a recession? Is the Prime Minister p…
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Mr. Speaker, I love hearing my colleague accuse the Conservatives of being people who just want sound bites for social media. The point is that we are not making things up when we present the facts, when we talk about the loss of 113,400 jobs in Canada and when we talk about how people are struggling to put food on the table. We have the statistics to back up what we are saying. Statistics Canada …
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Mr. Speaker, Canada is the only G7 country that is in a recession. However, just a few days ago, the Prime Minister was bragging that Canada is the second-strongest economy in the G7. It is clear that he misled Canadians. Meanwhile, 112,300 jobs have been lost since the beginning of the year. Canada now has the second-highest unemployment rate in the G7. Other countries are facing the same tariffs…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is right: The Liberals received a mandate, but they are not fulfilling their mandate. The proof is that we are currently in a recession. Furthermore, the Prime Minister swore he was the only one capable of resolving the problem with Donald Trump. A year and a half later, absolutely nothing has been resolved. Meanwhile, 87,000 jobs were lost in Quebec during the first four…
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Mr. Speaker, countries around the world are working to help their citizens. As everyone knows, filling up the car with gas is really expensive these days. Everyone is talking about it everywhere. The holidays are coming up, and it costs a fortune to gas up. Australia, Spain and Ireland have realized this and have eliminated gas taxes. What is the government waiting for now to eliminate the GST? Th…
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Mr. Speaker, after weeks of pressure from the Conservative Party, the Liberals have finally come to their senses and eliminated the excise tax on gasoline, but that is not enough. The Liberals continue to maintain the so-called clean fuel standard, another hidden tax that currently adds 7¢ per litre and could rise to 17¢ per litre by 2030. Canadians need real relief now, not a half-measure from th…
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Mr. Speaker, one symbol that unites all Canadians from coast to coast to coast is the Snowbirds, but my colleagues from Saskatchewan have now asked the Minister of National Defence four questions, and his only answer is that to suggest the program should not be cancelled is to put pilots' lives in danger. What have the Liberals been doing for the past 11 years? They have known for quite some time …
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, that answer is absolutely meaningless. It is important to understand that, between 2022 and 2025, 192,000 Canadians wanted to enroll but only 15,000 were accepted. Meanwhile, the government recruited permanent residents, non-Canadians and people who do not speak English or French and enrolled them in officer courses. How can we keep our country safe when we rely on peop…
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Mr. Speaker, ethnic conflicts from various countries have now found their way into the Canadian Armed Forces. A leaked internal report from the Canadian Armed Forces Leadership and Recruit School confirms that platoons comprising up to 83% of people who are not even Canadian citizens have experienced serious conflicts, allegations of racism and cultural friction. Instructors even report difficulti…
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Mr. Speaker, during the 2025 election campaign, the Prime Minister presented himself as a rigorous economist. Today, Emmanuelle Latraverse of the Journal de Montréal clearly stated—as we all do, for that matter—that he is far more of a Liberal politician than an economist. In his budget update, he is increasing spending, he has no plan to balance the budget and he is setting us up for years of def…
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Mr. Speaker, I am thrilled to hear that I left an impression on the minister. What I am struck by is the fact that absolutely nothing has been resolved, despite what she just said. The tariffs are still in place. In fact, they actually went up for all steel-related products. This is a disaster. Too many businesses are shutting down. That is the true state of affairs. The members on the other side …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government will present its economic update this afternoon. The Prime Minister promised to spend less, but he doubled the deficit. He promised to make cuts to the public service, but he increased bureaucracy by 7%. In Quebec, 40% of our seniors live on just over $20,000 a year, while long-term care rents have risen to $4,000 a month. When will the Liberal Prime Minister st…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister says that her government is getting the house in order. Who has been creating the mess for the past 10 years then? They did that. They want to clean up the mess they created, but let us be real. Nobody thought it was possible to spend more than Justin Trudeau. Still, as we can see, the Prime Minister has succeeded in achieving this unenviable feat. Meanwhile, the Liberal …
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Mr. Speaker, it would have been very interesting to hear what Judge Arbour had to say to the committee, but she refused to come. She did not come to explain her report. Obviously, if the committee members had been able to ask her questions and gain a clearer understanding of what she intended, that might have changed certain things. Either she did not want to come, or the government advised her no…
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Mr. Speaker, the answer is pretty clear: yes. As I mentioned in my speech, the Liberals always turn a deaf ear when victims speak out. This is not a new phenomenon. We have seen it across the board with respect to the Criminal Code, the justice system, and crimes against women. They have always turned a deaf ear and a blind eye. For our part, we can never understand why this government turns a dea…
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Mr. Speaker, that is an excellent question. I think that, like me, my colleague sees the Liberals as having a disregard for democracy. They have no respect for opposition parties, even though we make constructive proposals to improve legislation in the interest of all Canadians. That is what the opposition parties did together. The members opposite are rejecting our proposals out of hand, and we c…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to start by saying that I was a member of the Canadian Forces for 22 years. I witnessed military justice being applied in various cases. Later, when I became a major, I was trained to preside over summary trials and, as a unit commander, I had to administer military justice. I tried some cases by summary trial. There were some situations and some problems related to sexua…
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Mr. Speaker, last month, on March 25 specifically, the Prime Minister said that the cost of living in Canada is the best it has been in over a decade. However, the price of groceries continues to rise, rent continues to go up, gas prices are now $2 a litre in almost every region of Quebec and, in the past five years, home prices have increased by 67% in Quebec. Young Quebeckers cannot even think a…
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Mr. Speaker, the fundamental question is not what band-aid solutions the government is coming up with to try to fix the problem. It is whether the Prime Minister truly believes what he said on March 25 when he claimed that cost of living is the best it has been in a decade. Does the Prime Minister or anyone in his government really believe that? I do not want to hear about the government's countle…
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Mr. Speaker, I am not the one who said that. Last year, the Prime Minister, who is sitting here, said that he could negotiate an agreement and solve the problem with Donald Trump. Now, here we are a year later and nothing has been resolved. Worse still, there have been no negotiations with the U.S. over the past five months. Everything is at a complete standstill. Meanwhile, Mexico is making progr…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister was elected on a single promise: to negotiate a victory with the U.S. President by July 21, 2025. So far, there have been no victories and no agreements, and the U.S. tariffs on Canadian products have doubled. As a result of this incompetence, hundreds of Quebec businesses are losing millions of dollars because of U.S. tariffs. What is the government doing? It is ta…
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Mr. Speaker, in his little video, the Prime Minister said that “hope is not a plan”. Right now, his plan is to give up 74% of our exports to the United States in exchange for 4% with the Chinese communist regime. To me, that is pure madness. He promised an agreement with Donald Trump before July 21, 2025. Absolutely nothing has been resolved and worse yet, tariffs have doubled and other tariffs ha…
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Mr. Speaker, the daily reality for regular people, those watching us at home, as the Minister of Finance often says, is that we still have the worst food inflation of the G7. The Prime Minister likes to talk about the global factors that are hiking up grocery costs. He is unable to say anything else. Liberals are trying to distract us, but the reality is made up of things we buy every day, like gr…
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Mr. Speaker, in his latest amateur video, the Prime Minister is giving us the same old story, the same old promises, the same old staged performance and the same lack of results. Meanwhile, we have seen no pipelines, no trade agreements, fewer homes and a skyrocketing deficit. We do not need more speeches or more smoke and mirrors. We need results. When will the Prime Minister deliver results?
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Mr. Speaker, since the U.S. tariffs were imposed, Canadian exports have nosedived by more than 15% and jobs are disappearing across the country. The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has confirmed that Chinese steel is being dumped in Canada, directly harming our workers. Our companies are being hit on two fronts: first by the Americans, and second by unfair competition from China. During the …
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Mr. Speaker, can the minister go talk to the 700 employees of Paccar in Sainte-Thérèse who lost their job because of the tariffs? Then there is BRP, which suffered a $500-million loss due to a 35% drop in its stock price. Once again, it is the jobs of Quebec workers that are at risk. These are not just abstract numbers. They represent the reality of everyday life. Let us not forget that the Prime …
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Mr. Speaker, the truly good news will come when this government decides to take all of our advice. For three years, we have been asking them to eliminate the carbon tax; they did it. Now we are asking them to remove all taxes on gasoline: GST, excise tax and clean fuel surcharges included. Is the government ready to go the extra mile to help Canadians who face the harsh daily reality of paying too…
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Mr. Speaker, while Canadians are struggling to pay for groceries, the Liberal government is once again proposing half measures. The Prime Minister's announcement only deals with a fraction of the fuel taxes and only for a few months. It is a measure that would reduce the cost of gasoline by as little as 10¢ a litre. Meanwhile, prices at the pump continue to skyrocket. Canadians are already paying …
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Mr. Speaker, let me clarify that just because I am asking him how much money he is putting in does not mean that I am in favour of the project. We have been clear: Our position is still the same. However, during the last election campaign, the Liberals promised to fund 40% of the project. The project is starting now, but the funding has not been confirmed. There is legitimate concern in Quebec Cit…
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Mr. Speaker, for several weeks now, there has been a lot of conflicting information circulating about the Quebec City tramway project. Here we have the member for Beauport—Limoilou telling us about a $13-billion project, while project managers are telling us it will cost $7.6 billion. One of the things that we do not know but that we need to know is how much money the federal government is willing…
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Mr. Speaker, according to the Auditor General, tens of thousands of people entered the country and stayed here without proper screening, even though many cases had already been flagged. The government is unable to say which international students are following the rules, which ones have left the country and which ones remain here illegally. In other words, the Liberals opened the door, but they no…
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Mr. Speaker, this government has completely lost control of immigration over the last 10 years. The proof came yesterday in the Auditor General's report, which confirms that 150,000 of the people who applied for a student visa had been flagged as high-risk. The government is only able to verify 4,000 cases. The rest have been forgotten, lost in the system. Right now, the Liberals cannot even say w…
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Mr. Speaker, on March 12, in Montreal, 55-year-old Chong Woo Kim was stabbed to death in his own convenience store in broad daylight by Xavier Gellatly, an individual with a years-long record of violent behaviour and serious mental health issues. As far back as 2016, authorities began issuing warnings that he might kill someone if he were released. Despite that, he was released without adequate su…
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Mr. Speaker, at my request here in the House, the public safety committee established a special subcommittee in 2017 to study the case of Eustachio Gallese, who killed Marylène Levesque in Quebec City after being released without proper supervision. Now, years later, we have the same issue, specifically that an individual who should not be out on the street, someone who should not be walking aroun…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have known for years that senior members of the Iranian regime were living in Canada. This week, however, we learned that they expelled only one of them, even though 239 visas had been revoked. Liberal government officials also stated in committee that they could not expel members of the Iranian regime because they were eligible to claim asylum and their privacy had to be…
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Mr. Speaker, what the Minister of Public Safety shared today is very little compared to what needs to be done. Today, we submitted specific points to the government. Allow me to repeat what we are asking the government to do. We are asking it to urgently enforce deportation orders for Iranian regime officials, to evaluate Canada's terrorism threat level, which has remained unchanged since 2014, an…
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Mr. Speaker, the Iranian Canadian community is talking to us, in fact. Iranian Canadians are telling us that the presence of IRGC members on Canadian soil is a huge problem for their community. We are not talking about one, two or three people. We are talking about hundreds of people linked to this terrorist group. They have been banned for years now. Can the minister confirm that there are still …
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Mr. Speaker, in 2018, we moved a motion calling on the Liberal government to immediately designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, as a listed terrorist entity. It took the Liberals six long years to wake up and do it. Right now, an estimated 700 members of the IRGC are living the good life here in Canada. I am reluctant to ask the following question. If it took them six years to …
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister said that the immigration system was under control. However, the Liberals have broken our immigration system. Here are the facts: 86,000 bogus refugee claimants are still in Canada. More than 33,000 are still wanted by the Canada Border Services Agency. Worse still, 25,000 asylum seekers were accepted without any security checks. In addition, the Minister…
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Mr. Speaker, this is not personal. It is professional. Clearly, this minister does not understand her file. Ten of her colleagues told the French CBC that the minister was not familiar with her files and that she was incompetent. We need a minister who can grasp what is going on in Canada to manage immigration. Will the Prime Minister show some backbone and fire her?
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Mr. Speaker, as I said in my speech, we have been very clear. If people need emergency care, then of course we are committed to providing such care. However, the report that was tabled and that was discussed at the Standing Committee on Health clearly indicates that the system is being abused. As we speak, there are people in Canada whose asylum claims have been denied and who are receiving extend…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for that very good question. If there are asylum seekers whose claims have been denied, who are criminals and who must serve a sentence, I think that they should serve it in Canada, unless there are explicit agreements with countries that can confirm that the person will serve their prison sentence in the country in question. However, if there is any doubt at all,…
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